Descartes' Error

and that is the critical point I made in Descartes’ Error. When emotion is entirely left out of the reasoning picture, as happens in certain neurological conditions, reason turns out to be even more flawed than when emotion plays bad tricks on our decisions

Malcolm Gladwell opens his book Blink (2005)

The obligate participation of emotion in the reasoning process can be advantageous or nefarious depending both on the circumstances of the decision and on the past history of the decider. The